According to a new study based on interviews with defectors, most North Koreans have used methamphetamine and its use is "normal". The drug can reportedly be ordered in restaurants, and one informant claims it's being given to soldiers as a stimulant.

Indians have again taken to the streets to protest for tougher action against the perpetrators of gang rape after a female photographer was assaulted in Mumbai last week. Jim Middleton speaks with sociologist Shilpa Phadke from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.

A new study has revealed that methamphetamine use in North Korea is considered normal by most of the population. Jim Middleton speaks with Prof. Kim Seok Hyang, one of the authors of the study and a professor of North Korean studies at the Ewha Womans University.

The shareprice of Qantas has headed skywards as it announced a turnaround from loss to profit today. In announcing its full year results CEO Alan Joyce described the market as volatile. But he remained committed to cost control and repairing the airlines international business

The rupee is in free fall and India's Reserve Bank is resorting to GFC era policies. It is a similar story in Indonesia as well where the central bank today raised its benchmark interest rate by half a per cent in a bid to arrest its sliding currency.

The Council for Private Educaton and Training says earnings from international education have fallen by more than two point five billion dollars in three years. It's called for urgent improvements including faster visa approval times and better international marketing.The group's CEO Claire Field speaks to Phillip.

Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne has defended the Coalition's pledge to only match four years of the Government's six-year school funding plan, saying he wants to provide certainty to schools.

We've grown accustomed to cameras watching our every move. Shops around the country are now secretly tracking mobile phone movements to analyse retail patterns. The developers say it just levels the playing field with online stores but some privacy experts warn it could be illegal.

British police have charged Rolf Harris with nine counts of indecent assault and four counts of making indecent images of a child.

The charges come as a part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation prompted by the child sexual abuse allegations against late BBC TV star Jimmy Savile.

Six of the indecent assault charges relate to the alleged assault of a girl aged between 15 and 16 in the years 1980 and 1981, while the other three relate to the alleged assault of a 14-year-old girl in 1986.

The four charges of making indecent images of a child relate to alleged incidents between March and July 2012.

In this episode of Grandstand, the doping watchdog claims its first league scalp, the fallout from Essendon's supplement scandal has a legal twist and Lleyton Hewitt battles his way through to the second round of the US Open.

In this episode, Kevin Rudd transformed from an economic rationalist to an economic nationalist, the leaders' forum kickstart the new debate over foreign ownership and the daughters of the men vying to become Australia's 29th Prime Minister.